I guess one of the reason why there are still people out there who wants to buy forum accounts is to join signature campaign and as you know, if you are a Newbie, there's only a few or I think none (at this time) who accepts a Newbie rank to join a campaign. Another reason is if someone wants to promote their business (new site, casino, token) and register in this forum, they will start as a Newbie and there's a time limit on when a Newbie can post after a post has been made, so to skip that, they would rather buy an account and lastly, yes to scam people, unfortunately it happens here. They pretend to be around the forum for quite sometime to give the impression that they can be trusted.